EcoFlow says its new Ocean Pro is better than Tesla’s Powerwall

EcoFlow’s Power Ocean location vigor strategy includes an inverter, 10kWh batteries, an AI-powered vigor absorption system, and the enactment of a astute panel. | Image: EcoFlow

EcoFlow is powering up its archetypal permanently installed whole-home vigor solution for the US. The Ocean Pro system launches this week, featuring the caller Ocean Pro Battery with 10kWh of retention expandable to 80kWh, and the Ocean Pro Inverter, which supports star arrays of up to 40kWh.

EcoFlow claims the strategy delivers 24kW of continuous power, capable to enactment each your appliances, including two 5-ton HVAC systems. Ocean Pro volition besides enactment with EcoFlow’s caller Smart Home Panel for much precocious vigor monitoring and power capabilities. 

Whole-home vigor solutions, specified arsenic Ocean Pro, are fulfilling an expanding request among homeowners for vigor independency and stability successful the look of the impacts of utmost weather, rising vigor costs, and the instability of the powerfulness grid successful immoderate areas. EcoFlow claims that the Ocean Pro is much almighty than immoderate different strategy connected the market, including Tesla’s Powerwall 3. 

Ocean Pro’s enactment for 40kWh rooftop star arrays is treble that of the Tesla Powerwall 3, and it tin grip 8 batteries connected 1 inverter, compared to lone 3 for Tesla. It’s besides rated higher for flooding, up to 2.6 feet, and comes with a 15-year warranty, compared to the 10-year warranty offered by Tesla. EcoFlow besides claims a powerfulness switching clip of nether 10ms.

Another unsocial diagnostic is that it tin beryllium installed inside. “We person UL 9540B information certification approval, which means it’s harmless capable to beryllium installed successful the house,” Felipe Burga of EcoFlow said successful an interrogation with The Verge.

To amended blend in, the strategy comes successful 3 finishes: aluminum, walnut, and c fiber. It has a robust IP67 standing against particulate and rainfall if you bash enactment it outside, and the LFP batteries tin run betwixt -4 to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Ocean Pro tin run successful grid-tied mode to merchantability excess vigor backmost to the powerfulness company, supporting 290V grid compatibility. Plus, the EcoFlow app volition beryllium capable to integrate with immoderate disposable Virtual Power Plant networks to assistance enactment the grid based connected real-time conditions and prices.

EcoFlow says this is the archetypal strategy with multi-source backup power, susceptible of moving with solar, grid, its portable powerfulness stations, and astir state generators — meaning you should beryllium capable to support your location powered from diesel, gasoline, earthy gas, oregon propane if everything other fails.

Generators tin link straight to the inverter via an SS2-50 Port, and it volition enactment with immoderate 240-volt model, says Burga. “The inverter turns the powerfulness into DC close away, powers the loads, and charges the battery, truthful it becomes the voltage source. We’re the lone strategy that you tin tally your generator and your star strategy astatine the aforesaid time.”

EcoFlow claims homeowners tin prevention up to 18 percent connected electrical bills with the real-time vigor monitoring successful its app and its AI-powered Oasis Home Energy Management System. The second tin foretell weather, pricing, and vigor depletion to optimize your production, use, and storage.

The app tin integrate with respective astute location systems and devices, including EV chargers, astute thermostats from Ecobee and Nest, energy-monitoring products similar astute plugs from Shelly and TP-Link, and immoderate Matter-compatible device. It besides works with Apple Home, Google Home, and Amazon Alexa. 

Ocean Pro builds connected the PowerOcean bid launched successful Europe successful 2023 and is simply a large measurement up from EcoFlow’s home artillery backup kits. That modular solution uses its portable powerfulness products to make a artillery partition and works with EcoFlow’s archetypal astute location panel. This strategy is simply a imperishable installation, offering higher capableness and the quality to necktie into the grid. It tin enactment with your existing electrical panel, but if you privation to adhd much smart/energy monitoring capabilities, you tin instal EcoFlow’s caller Smart Home Panel.

The caller astute sheet is EcoFlow’s archetypal afloat replacement electrical panel. Burga says it tin grip up to 40 circuits, and you tin adhd the Smart Home Panel 2 sub-panel for further loads.

The sheet allows you to customize which loads are running, and provides fine-grained vigor monitoring and management. “Our AI learns from you erstwhile you usage your powerfulness and recommends however to optimize your usage and suggest changes for redeeming money,” explains Burga.

EcoFlow isn’t publishing pricing for the battery, inverter, oregon astute location panel. The institution says that, due to the fact that it’s a implicit system, pricing depends connected the installer and the circumstantial setup for each home.

However, for an average-sized US home, you should program connected spending astatine slightest $10,000 for 2 batteries and the inverter, and that’s earlier factoring successful the installation costs.

Preorders are present unfastened connected the EcoFlow website, wherever you tin input your details and beryllium connected with an installer successful your area. 

EcoFlow is acold from unsocial successful looking to bring much robust location vigor solutions to market. Schneider launched its Schneider Home system astatine CES past year; Savant Power, Anker Solix, Bluetti, Jackery, and Generac besides connection whole-home backup solutions. However, the upfront outgo of these systems remains a important obstruction for many, and clip is moving retired to capitalize connected existing taxation incentives for cleanable vigor upgrades, which expire connected December 31, 2025. 

The extremity of taxation credits and the accomplishment of larger tariffs connected batteries and star panels bring overmuch uncertainty to the location vigor market. But Burga says EcoFlow is afloat committed to its enlargement into the US. “We’re present for the agelong term. We’re investing millions of dollars successful the US market, and we really spot this arsenic a large opportunity. The marketplace is going to shift, and we are precise committed.” 

He points retired that there’s inactive precocious demand. A caller survey commissioned by EcoFlow recovered that 70 percent of homeowners successful California, Texas, and Florida judge having a powerfulness backup solution is important. “People privation vigor independence,” says Burga. “They don’t privation to beryllium connected the monopoly that vigor companies person become.” 

Additionally, a displacement distant from the existent marketplace leader, Tesla, has opened the doorway for caller entrants. EcoFlow’s survey recovered 24 percent of respondents said they wouldn’t see investing successful Tesla’s powerfulness products owed to “a tendency for a little polarizing and much trustworthy solution.”